It was all better back then...
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"The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint... As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress."
Attributed to Peter the Hermit, AD 1274
Attributed to Peter the Hermit, AD 1274
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The complaints go back a bit further than Peter the Hermit, AD 1274 Lester.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L. Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277
(1953)."
And you could have this without all the PCers getting knickers in a twist.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L. Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277
(1953)."
And you could have this without all the PCers getting knickers in a twist.
dUS classic post. Wasn't it better back when the old crouchers went to the retirement home to eat mashed veges and play bingo? Where's the gratitude to the younger generations for Viagra and internet. If the old fellas embraced pay for training back in the day, they all could have flown what they wanted. 
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Word to the young.........you bitch about old equipment.
What's the average age of GA aircraft these days? 40 years?
My memory's not what it used to be, but I'm sure you're right ... I'm sure all Hero students in the sixties drooled at the prospect of earning negative income for years for the chance to fly shiny 1920s era passenger aircraft!
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It was all better back then.
They were good days when the Main Computer was your own brain and good Airmanship was a thing to achieve.
The young pilots of today will be the older pilots of tomorrow ( we hope ).
Tmb
The young pilots of today will be the older pilots of tomorrow ( we hope ).
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Word to the young.........you bitch about old equipment.
Too bloody right they bitch, don't they!
What's the average age of GA aircraft these days? 40 years?
Too bloody right they bitch, don't they!
What's the average age of GA aircraft these days? 40 years?
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Pilots back then had an overwelming urge to stop talking just to watch an aeroplane take off. I still do (esp DC3, DC9, 727 etc if Im lucky to catch one) but the i-kids dont.
You could personaly get tough with pax making @rseholes of themselves without fear of it being posted on Utube one hour later
Smoking seats
Get a face-to-face brief from the Metman and have a very clear picture of what to expect.
The captain took the fuel HE wanted, not what a armchair beancounter dictated
An assumed temp takeoff was merely an option if you felt like doing it
You felt a real satisfaction getting the beast from Sydney to Perth on a ****ty night after "howgozing it" all the way to Kalgoorlie
Susan Jones (she wasnt with my mob as I was a Whispering T-Jet boy but in both outfits the panash was there)
No worrys about PEDs interfering with nav equipment
Public observation areas atop terminals
Passengers actualy dressed up for their airline flight
The biggest acronym was "DCA AIP RAC/OPS"
Flight engineers!
No bloodey handphones
You could tell the hostie she was the most beautiful woman youve ever met without fear of a sexual harassment charge
A320s werent invented yet!
You could personaly get tough with pax making @rseholes of themselves without fear of it being posted on Utube one hour later
Smoking seats
Get a face-to-face brief from the Metman and have a very clear picture of what to expect.
The captain took the fuel HE wanted, not what a armchair beancounter dictated
An assumed temp takeoff was merely an option if you felt like doing it
You felt a real satisfaction getting the beast from Sydney to Perth on a ****ty night after "howgozing it" all the way to Kalgoorlie
Susan Jones (she wasnt with my mob as I was a Whispering T-Jet boy but in both outfits the panash was there)
No worrys about PEDs interfering with nav equipment
Public observation areas atop terminals
Passengers actualy dressed up for their airline flight
The biggest acronym was "DCA AIP RAC/OPS"
Flight engineers!
No bloodey handphones
You could tell the hostie she was the most beautiful woman youve ever met without fear of a sexual harassment charge
A320s werent invented yet!
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From yesterdays local rag, - 150 Years Young..
1947
PLANES BANNED
The Department of Civil Aviation has declared Maryborough Airport partially unserviceable, meaning nothing heavier than a De Havillland Dragon can land. The Lockheed Lodestar, which lands here four times a day, can use the grass alongside the runways unless it is raining when planes can get bogged. Even worse, the Department has decided to bypass Maryborough and build a modern emergency landing ground at Bundaberg.
yet two years later....
1949
TAA service
The first aircraft of a new service will land at Maryborough's airport on Monday. Trans Australia Airlines, TAA, has arrived and the local agent, Mr. Allan Strong, says flights will be on the north and south schedules.
A 21-passenger Douglas aircraft will land twice a day, seven days a week from next Monday.
Flew a Club one privately in '68, then did Commercial training in a 1967 H model 172 in '69, so it was still a new aircraft then. Now that I have one, with less than 4,000 hours on its clock, I still think of the H model as a modern aircraft, as it is as familiar as an old friend.. The 1959 model 182 Skylane first flown as a company aircraft in '71, didn't seem old technology then, and would be quite happy to climb back into a well maintained one again now.
1947
PLANES BANNED
The Department of Civil Aviation has declared Maryborough Airport partially unserviceable, meaning nothing heavier than a De Havillland Dragon can land. The Lockheed Lodestar, which lands here four times a day, can use the grass alongside the runways unless it is raining when planes can get bogged. Even worse, the Department has decided to bypass Maryborough and build a modern emergency landing ground at Bundaberg.
yet two years later....
1949
TAA service
The first aircraft of a new service will land at Maryborough's airport on Monday. Trans Australia Airlines, TAA, has arrived and the local agent, Mr. Allan Strong, says flights will be on the north and south schedules.
A 21-passenger Douglas aircraft will land twice a day, seven days a week from next Monday.
Flew a Club one privately in '68, then did Commercial training in a 1967 H model 172 in '69, so it was still a new aircraft then. Now that I have one, with less than 4,000 hours on its clock, I still think of the H model as a modern aircraft, as it is as familiar as an old friend.. The 1959 model 182 Skylane first flown as a company aircraft in '71, didn't seem old technology then, and would be quite happy to climb back into a well maintained one again now.
My memory's not what it used to be, but I'm sure you're right ... I'm sure all Hero students in the sixties drooled at the prospect of earning negative income for years for the chance to fly shiny 1920s era passenger aircraft!
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It was your generation that was in charge while enforcing the "bending over" antics to junior pilots AND the baby boomer generations have been in charge of every major f*&k up since WW2....
It was your generation that was in charge while enforcing the "bending over" antics to junior pilots AND the baby boomer generations have been in charge of every major f*&k up since WW2....
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Especially the Trislander, which in my opinion is Britain's rather fitting revenge on the Empire
Many an Ozzer got a start in Pommyland on these and other DiDartsters
It was your generation that was in charge while enforcing the "bending over" antics to junior pilots AND the baby boomer generations have been in charge of every major f*&k up since WW2....